Will we party like it's 1999 again?
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The front page of the Deseret News on Jan. 1, 2000, as a new century dawned, and Y2K glitches seemed minimal. Editor’s note: This ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Reflecting on the actual Y2K is a reminder that computing’s real risks have less to do with murderous robots—and far more to do ...
Zachary Loeb, Purdue University assistant professor, tells NPR's Juana Summers that the real story of Y2k wasn't about computers run amok. It was about experts sounding an alarm, and fixing problems.
We were warned that our embrace of computer technology would lead to disaster. By incorporating computers into ever more areas of our lives, we were told, we had created a scenario in which a mundane ...
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — The year 2000 (Y2K) problem, also known as the millennium bug, was a major source of computer concerns 25 years ago. It was expected to cause computers to fail and lead to ...
Editor’s note: This is part III of our series, “Y2K: The good, the bad, and the crazy.” Read “Y2K, the good,” and “Y2K, the bad,” and then take a moment to share your own Millennium Eve tales. While ...
ST. LOUIS – 25 years ago on this New Year’s Eve, FOX 2 was covering the biggest story of the year: a new millennium and a fear that massive computer malfunctions would disrupt life as we knew it.
After a news conference, Rep. Stephen Horn, R-Calif., chairman of Government Management, Information & Technology, examines a chart showing his grades for each agency's progress on the Y2K computer ...